Thursday, February 13, 2014

Let's put aside the fact that this line of thinking would mean that while fossil fuel behemoths Exxon Mobil (market cap:$394.83B), Chevron (market cap:$215.45B) and BP (market cap:$150.07B)
(total: $760.35B) have been completely stymied in their efforts to buy
the scientific consensus they desire on climate change, but a medium
large company like Monsanto (market cap: $57.43B)
has been able to manipulate tens of thousands of scientists performing
thousands of studies for three decades with no whistleblowers resulting
in a scientific consensus that has been bent completely to their will.
Let's put that aside.
Instead, let's first take a look at the evidence, before moving to
unravel some of pretzeled logic often employed to dismiss the weight of
that evidence in support of the scientific consensus on GMOs.
Take for example the EU. Politicians in the EU aren't that friendly
to GMOs and they wanted to be very careful about them. So they ponied up
EURO 200 million over the course of decade to look into the matter. The
studies they carried out are neatly summarized in A Decade of EU Funded GMO Research [pdf].